Photo: Canmenwalker · CC BY 4.0Dixie and its setting: 49 historic places within 25 km
The nearest town to Dixie with a top designation is Little Portugal, 12 km away. Its housing is mostly newer: 11% predates 1961, where the typical town has 18%.
Nearest to Dixie: Adamson Estate, 6.2 km away
By designation: 34 National Historic Sites, 12 provincial or municipal listings and 2 Recognized Federal Heritage Buildings. Downtown Yonge East, Yonge-Bay Corridor and Fort York-Liberty Village hold most of them, among 27 towns. 49 places lie within 25 km.
The 12 nearest, within 25 km
| Adamson EstateDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 6.2 km away, in Lakeview |
| LislehurstDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1885 · 10 km away, in Erin Mills |
| Postal Station “D”Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1935–1937 · 10 km away, in Junction Area |
| St. Anne's Anglican ChurchNational Historic Site · 1907–1909 · 12 km away, in Little Portugal |
| Gouinlock Buildings / Early Exhibition BuildingsNational Historic Site · 1904–1913 · 13 km away, in Fort York-Liberty Village |
| Fort York ArmouryRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1935–1936 · 14 km away, in Fort York-Liberty Village |
| Fort YorkNational Historic Site · 1813–1816 · 14 km away, in Fort York-Liberty Village |
| Toronto Island Airport Terminal BuildingNational Historic Site · 1938–1940 · 15 km away, in St Lawrence-East Bayfront-The Islands |
| Kensington MarketNational Historic Site · 1815–1816 · 15 km away, in Kensington-Chinatown |
| SpadinaNational Historic Site · 1866–1914 · 15 km away, in Casa Loma |
| George Brown HouseNational Historic Site · 1875–1878 · 15 km away, in Kensington-Chinatown |
| Newman CentreOntario Heritage Trust easement · 1891 · 15 km away, in University |
Within 25 km of Dixie, the record goes back to 1793
Reaching 25 km out from Dixie: the historic places by their first construction date on record.
The oldest is Ashbridge Estate in Greenwood-Coxwell, from 1793. 46 places within 25 km carry a construction date. 15 are older than 1867.
Little new building in Dixie: 0.6% of homes date from 2016 to 2021, against 4.1%
53% of Dixie’s homes were built from 1961 to 1980, more than the typical town’s 27%. Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up just 10% of Dixie’s, against 15% in the typical town. Over half of the homes in Dixie were already standing by 1981.
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
How Dixie compares with 16 towns its size
Towns of 3,700 to 3,800 residents, by places on the registers.
Ahead of it: Sainte-Claire. Their median is 0. 15 of them have none.
Dixie and its neighbours
| Town | People | Places | Highest | Oldest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dixie | 3,749 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Applewood | 33,229 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Markland Wood | 10,559 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Alderwood | 12,596 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Rathwood | 27,388 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Etobicoke West Mall | 12,218 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Mississauga Valleys | 11,799 | 0 | 0 | — |
Dixie in brief
Little of its housing was standing by 1961: 11%, against 18% in the typical town. For its size the list is short: the typical town has 0 historic places. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: one person of its past, Albert Durrant Watson (1859).
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Protection. Federal recognition isn’t a planning control: buildings the federal government owns follow its heritage policy, while others are protected only by a provincial or municipal designation.
- The tiers. The highest designations are National Historic Sites, Classified Federal Heritage Buildings and Québec’s classements; then come the other federal designations; then provincial and local listings.
- The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
- Provincial and municipal lists. Provincial and municipal listings here come from Wikidata alone, since the provinces’ own registers can’t be reused; a listing needs an encyclopedia article to get a page.
- The federal register. Every federal designation is in Parks Canada’s directory, and the Canadian Register of Historic Places gives most of them a bilingual statement of significance.
- People and events. Parks Canada’s open file gives its national historic persons no place. A town’s page names one only when the person was born there (matched by name and both life years) or one of its own historic places carries the name and its record speaks of them; national historic events stay off.
Questions about Dixie’s history
How many historic places does Dixie have on the registers?
Not inside Dixie. The closest is Adamson Estate in Lakeview, 6.2 km away.
How old are the homes in Dixie?
11% predate 1961, where the typical town has 18%.
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada (Parks Canada).
Sources: Parks Canada, Directory of Federal Heritage Designations · Canadian Register of Historic Places (federal extract) · Wikidata (CC0) for map points, other names and articles · Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (homes by period of construction). Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).